HipHopStad Rotterdam- USED

Description

Title: HipHopStad Rotterdam
Subtitle: Visie Op De Scene
Author: O.C. Hart
Paperback
Published: 2009
Pages: 80
Language: Dutch
Dimensions: 29 x 24 x 1 cm./ 11.4 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch.
Condition: Cover: 9.5/10 Inside: 10/10

In the mid 1970s, the Hip Hop subculture emerged in the South Bronx, New York. Funky music, B-boying, rap and graffiti did not come out of nowhere, but the parties of pioneers such as Kool DJ Herc and Afrika Bambaataa all came together and a scene was created. Every subculture starts with a scene, made up of artists and fans.

Nowhere in the Netherlands was Hip Hop picked up more strongly than in Rotterdam. From the early 1980s, many young people were active as dj, graffiti writer, B-boy and mc (rapper). Just like New York, Rotterdam is a raw, dynamic city with a multicolored population. Although much smaller than the metropolis of New York, Rotterdam appears to be the only really large city in the Netherlands with its skyscrapers. Based on the personal stories of Rotterdam pioneers and key figures, this book provides insight into Rotterdam as a hip-hop city. Hip-hop has been living in Rotterdam for more than 25 years (2009). This book is an introduction to the people who were and are an important part of this; artists with a clear vision of the scene. A straightforward story from Old school to New school is not outlined because many pioneers are still active after more than 20 years and therefore do not automatically fit exclusively into the Old school box.

Visiie Op De Scene is not the full story of Rotterdam hip-hop, that would require a book of a few hundred pages. The stories do, however, offer a nice overview of the early 1980s to 2009. From the first manifestation of hip-hop graffiti in Europe; Lee’s piece in the Rotterdam Berenkuil in 1982, up to the first Dutch hip-hop feature; Fatcap Express from Kas in 2008. And from the first hip-hop band The Moonrunners in the early 1980s to the melodic hip-hop of GMB today.